A quiet night, a stack of books, a tuna melt on rye

So for years undy_niable has tried to institute a family game night, but since my parents don't like to play games it always ends up being just us. Today we played scrabble in the middle of the afternoon 'cause we were bored. Our game

undy_niable: Tau?
me: it's a word. It's a letter of the greek alphabet.
undy_niable: *disbelieving look*
me: What?! It's commonly used in English.
undy_niable: By who?
me: Members of the Gamma Tau chapter of Phi Sigma Pi.

After much complaining I looked it up and it is of course the nineteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, and if you think that is illegal it is also a subatomic particle. I didn't know that, but it works for me. Anyway I won by five points because I used up all my letters so he got -5 points. Just thought I'd share

Me: I put the sheet that I kicked off in the middle of the night back on the bed and a spider crawled out.
Mom: Thats because you never vacuum your room
Me: How is vacuuming going to get rid of the spiders.
Mom: You vacuum up their webs, then they don't have anywhere to live and they go away.
Me: the web comes out of the spider's butt, if I vacuum the web they'll just make a new one.
Mom: then vacuum their butt.
Me: ?


Okay, so I thought it was a relatively funny conversation. Oh and